Oceana Key Biscayne Almost Sold Out

From left: Oceana Key Biscayne renderings and Eduardo Costantini

From left: Oceana Key Biscayne renderings and Eduardo Costantini

UPDATED, 5:30 p.m., June 18: Oceana Key Biscayne, the first U.S. development of Argentine real estate mogul and art collector Eduardo Costantini, is more than 90-percent sold-out pre-construction, leaving only 1 penthouse and 6 villas on the market 10 months after sales opened, The Real Deal has learned.

Oceana, the first new development in Key Biscyane in nearly 13 years, is scheduled to receive its final touches in July.

When completed in 2014, the Bernardo Fort-Brescia of Arquitectonica-designed all-glass, 14-story double tower on a 10.3-acre site will constitute a gated community with 142 units and 500 feet of private beach.

Costantini, chairman of the Nordelta gated community outside Buenos Aires and the founder of the Argentine capital’s Malba art museum, may exhibit works from his private collection in the Yabu-Pusehlberg-designed lobby. The community will also feature a social lounge, restaurant, pools, cabanas, a tennis court and a putting green.

The 5,187-square-foot, two-story villas with private pools on expansive private lots will be open for viewings starting August 15. Work is underway at Oceana Bal Harbour, Costantini’s development company, Consultatio, confirmed. –Emily Schmall

Faena House has 50% of units under contract

Faena Housethe ultra luxurious xanadu that Argentinian developer Alan Faena is building as the residential portion of his Faena District Miami Beach project, (let’s just call it Faena District for short) has fifty percent of its units under contract,according to a Faena representative.

The 18-story, 47 unit building comes with major starchitecture cred, being designed by Foster + Partners (a.k.a. Pritzker prize winning architect Lord Norman Foster), but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. It will have features and amenities galore, including its signature aleros (don’t take the hallway to get from A to B, take the balcony!), really major pieces of hurricane resistant glass, and humungous sliding hurricane glass doors (12.5 feet in some instances!). There will be a private residential beach club separate from the Faena Hotel next door, pools, men’s and women’s spas, residential lounges of course, and “gardens with both common areas and more intimate spaces” designed by Raymond Jungles.Faena House - Residence Interior View lo res-thumb